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I can't be the only one who notices the fact that Halloween seems to be less and less celebrated? every year less and less people dress up and talk about Halloween and also the fact that stores put out Halloween decorations every year later and later and they tend to be a lot less. On that note it took stores around me till just recently to have stuff out, also every year Christmas stuff is shoved out sooner and sooner. When I went out there was barley any decorations, maybe just an isle on a single side with a couple shelfs with the same stuff in every store. Idk if its just here but it seems to be a lot of places.Β
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Reply by Soup101
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It feels that way for me too. But a simple reason for it is that you can only really pump Halloween for a month to a month and a half.Β
Compared to Christmas of Two months [realistically 3, pushing 4] without any competition of any celebration. Besides snuffing out All Saints Day, Remembrance Day [Canada] and much more during that time.Β
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Reply by Deaths_Smile
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In my area people still celebrate Halloween a lot, if not more-so than years before, but only with decorating their homes.
I've noticed a lot of people who go trick-or-treating, especially the older kids, are kinda..."lazy" in terms of their costumes. I've seen a lot that wear those one-piece "costumes" that are like, ketchup bottles, toast slices, crayons, those kinds of things. It seems like the little kids are the ones with the more elaborate costumes. They also sometimes have the scarier ones (I saw a toddler dressed as Pennywise one year, and the demogorgon another). A lot of the older kids seem to just be in it for the candy, and not the spook-factor and/or the free dress-up-as-anything-you-want-in-public day.
Aside from that, yeah, the Christmas stuff moves into stores WAY too early. I get there's not really much decoration to do for Thanksgiving, but stores should wait until at leastΒ afterΒ Halloween is over to put Christmas decorations and stuff in stores. At the grocery store I go to, they basically got the Christmas stuff a week after the Halloween stuff. This was near the beginning of October. They're also already selling the eggnog with Santa and Mrs. Claus's faces on the cartons. I checked the expiration date and they expire in early November, waaaaay before Christmas, or even Thanksgiving.
I do love Christmas, it has a very specific vibe that I enjoy, but I also really like Halloween and I think stores should separate them more and stop pushing Christmas so much.
Reply by Elohimless π€π΅π·
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Unfortunately the Halloween (holiday) tradition of dressing up in "scary" costumes and/or getting face painted is seen by most people in mainstream society as an activity for "children". So a lot of people stop doing it at a certain age in order to conform to society.Β
Reply by ππ’π―πβ
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Where I live people don't celebrate halloween because they find those activities too childish and usually just feel like doing them. I don't live in the US so there is a big difference in culture when we talk about halloween.
A few weeks ago I went to the store to buy stuff and the stores were already full with christmas stuff which was actually strange considering it was only the beginning of september and I hardly saw anything of halloween which is a sad, I really hope more people will get into it, I personally would think that would be really cool.Β